CentraCom Interactive is a

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s company, which provides

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, DSL service, phone service, and

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to much of central, north and western

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. CentraCom is DBA of Central Utah Telephone, Inc. Central Utah Telephone was founded in 1903 as the first Independent rural telephone company in

Fairview, Utah Fairview is a city in northern Sanpete County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,203 at the 2020 census. History Located at the confluence of the San Pitch River and Cottonwood Creek, Fairview is the largest city in the northeast en ...

Subsidiaries

* Central Utah Telephone * Skyline Telecom * Bear Lake Communications * Manti Telephone Company * Manti Tele Communications Company * AFConnect * Central Telecom Services, LLC * CUTV * CentraCom Business Services * CentraCom Long Distance

Services

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Wireless broadband Wireless broadband is a telecommunications technology that provides high-speed wireless Internet access or computer networking access over a wide area. The term encompasses both fixed and mobile broadband. The term broadband Originally the wo ...

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* Dedicated Internet Service * Voice Services

History

Ezekial Cheney, Elsberry Garlic and Oscar Norman started a local telephone system in

and named it Fairview Telephone Company on July 4, 1903. In their first year, Fairview Telephone Company only sold and installed four telephones. After several changes in ownership, Roy B. Cox purchased the telephone system on July 1, 1919. Iven Cox took over management of the business from Roy in 1940. He operated the company until his retirement in 1979. Retaining the titles of president and chairman of the board, Iven placed his son I Branch Cox in charge of running the business. Branch's cousin, Eddie L. Cox, was assigned the office manager. On June 18, 2001, Lynch Interactive Corporation, a company based in Rye, New York, purchased Central Utah Telephone and its subsidiaries. Lynch Interactive (AMEX:LIC) left all existing management and staff in place. In 2001,

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, successor to U.S. West, divested itself of a number of rural exchanges in Utah. Central Utah Telephone acquired the Mt. Pleasant – Spring City exchange. Additionally, in that same sale Central Utah Telephone extended their westward reach to the Utah–Nevada border by purchasing the Dugway and

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, Utah exchanges. With the completion of these purchases, the geographical footprint of Central Utah Telephone, Inc. covered nearly one sixth of the land mass of the State of Utah and touches the states of

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and

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. In 2005, CentraCom purchased the Precis Communications cable TV system in the Sevier and Sanpete Counties. This acquisition launched their cable TV service and business IP services. This purchased included an extensive

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network. These fiber optic lines extend from

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and from Salt Lake City to

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. In 2009, CentraCom joined Western FiberNet. On September 29, 2023, CentraCom purchased Manti Telephone Company and Manti Tele Communications Company. The purchase expands the CentraCom

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network in

Ephraim, Utah Ephraim is a city in Sanpete County, Utah, Sanpete County, Utah, United States. The population was 5,611 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, making it the largest city in Sanpete County. It is the location of Snow College and is locat ...

and

Manti, Utah Manti ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Sanpete County, Utah, Sanpete County, Utah, United States. The population was 3,429 at the 2020 United States Census. Description Manti was the first community in Utah to be settled outside the Wasa ...

. With this purchase, CentraCom also acquires AFConnect, an internet service provider in

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